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I don't know why, but that I didn't have a full heart's worth of affection for him nagged at my very core. Each chat which ended in the character being pleased with the outcome slowly filled a little heart, showing his or her affection towards the lead. I wanted to improve my relationship with the clichéd flirty swordsman, so I took upon extra battles so we could gossip about the lead’s growing crush on the unsociable love interest and exchange notes on what foods we prefer. I could have easily beat the game days earlier, but instead, I found myself re-touring old battlegrounds in the hopes of unlocking a few hidden boss fights and advancing the clever Star Ocean 2-inspired private chats with your characters. I’ve still found myself happily ploughing far more hours into the game than I strictly needed to fulfil my reviewing obligations. The voice acting used in plot-important cut scenes is questionable (as any game would be when it makes one of the most powerful foes you’ll face all game, like, have a totally valley-girl twang who, oh my gosh, thinks everyone is, like, so a cutie) the touch-screen led movement of characters awkward at best within overcrowded areas and the equipment screen is poorly constructed and confusing enough to easily lead you into equipping less powerful weapons and armour than you own. Overly Noble Lead: I wonder if that will fall into our possession at some point and become an equipable item?Įvil Knight: Look at me! I'm kicking puppies!Įmotionless Ninja: My intel suggests that he is evil. Timid Healer: *GASP* Curse your black heart!įlirty Swordsman: Even though I've spent the entire game fighting your forces and intended to continue to do so anyway, I now have belated reasons to continue the fight and avenge my father who, as I alluded to earlier, loved honour.Įvil Knight: By a weird twist of fate, I also carry his sword around with me everywhere I go, even though it is useless to me as I can not remove it from the scabbard. Later on, I will attempt to slaughter orphans, by the by, just to drive this point home. And it sounds like something I would do, what with being the epitome of evil and all. You must be the one who killed him!Įvil Knight: Yes, that logic seems solid. The big plot twist is the same used in at least 65% of JRPGs and what little character development there is comes force fed to gamers via post-battle dialogue that looks all the world like this:Įvil Knight: This reminds me of the time I killed my honour-loving captain for no obtainable reason via back-stabbing! I'm inherently evil, by the way.įlirty Swordsman: Honour-loving?! Why, that super-vague description sounds exactly like my previously-unmentioned father who was slain in battle under mysterious circumstances. It's a game content to throw out the same skill-sets and the same clichéd cast members (the timid healer, the bone-headedly noble lead, the unsociable love interest who warms up to the lead 50% into the game, the bone-headedly noble lead's squeaky-voiced younger sibling - I could use up my word quota just ploughing through them) employed in a dozen similar games.
Luminous Arc is a SRPG that's happy to not break new barriers in its genre.
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Luminous Arc isn’t a dull, monotonous trek through a featureless and overly-convoluted series of caves: it’s an explosive rocket bungee through a gallery of neon-lit wonderment." "The more ‘professional’ reviewers out there have all led their reviews by saying something along the lines of “It’s no Final Fantasy Tactics” and I fully agree with them.
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